Modern Path does not issue refunds for workshops.

We do not issue refunds for attendee cancellations.

We do reserve the right to cancel workshops. Full refunds will be provided for workshops that are cancelled.

Modern Path, LLC respects the rights and needs of all individuals participating in our programs. As such we welcome feedback and opportunities for growth and change. We utilize the values of transformative justice when working to overcome hurts and harms. As such:

• We welcome direct feedback using course evaluation forms, email, phone or face to face communication

• We will offer an open dialogue with the instructor and/ or Modern Path, LLC leadership centering the person harmed and the core values of Modern Path, LLC

• We will work to problem solve and mitigate harm with the express goal of maintaining a relationship within the frameworks of anti-supremacy, anti-racism and anti-oppression.

• We will communicate our understanding of the requirements of accrediting bodies to which we must comply in the delivery of our programs, as well as professional ethical codes and standards of care which may be driving the content or decisions within a program offering. This includes providing live links to organizational policies and procedures upon request.

• We will listen to the requests for repair from the hurt or harmed parties and do our best to make amends and be held accountable.

• Due to the fact that we hire almost solely under-represented presenters and profits from programs offered support access to reduced fee therapy we do not make it a practice to offer refunds.

When we are unable to resolve a grievance in a way that the reporter feels meets their needs, we encourage the following:

For programs sponsored by NBCC email: nbcc@nbcc.org

For programs sponsored by AASECT email: ce@aasect.rog

Please read each individual workshop description carefully. Continuing Education programs will be clearly marked, including the approval body, number of hours, and learning objectives. Not all workshops meet the requirements for Continuing Cducation credit.

Modern Path has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7152. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Modern Path is solely responsible for all spects of the programs.

Modern Path is an approved Organization 1 Continuing Education Provider by American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists. CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. Modern Path, LLC & Provider # 22-143-MP (Expires 12/31/2023)

As a sex positive organization there are times that our workshops will include touch and/or other forms of physical demonstration.

Workshops that include touch or other forms of physical demonstration will be clearly identified on the workshop sales page. This content is provided as a means for you to engage in informed consent prior to registering for the workshop.

This workshop centers topics that encompass sex, sexuality, intimacy, sensuality, and pleasure.

This workshop includes Demonstrations

Demonstrations will be conducted by the facilitator, assistant, or pre-negotiated guest speaker who is not an attendee of the workshop.

Demonstrations will only occur in support of workshop objectives, classroom concepts, and related techniques.

Demonstrations will first be displayed by the instructor and their assistant for the class to witness so that they may engage in reasonably informed consent related to the hands-on learning activity.

Examples of a demonstration may include, but not limited to:

Attendees may be taught how to give each other hand massage as an experiential way to practice negotiating boundaries,

attendees may be taught how to hold or touch a partner in ways that feel supportive but not sexual,

attendees may be taught non-genital somatic breathe and/or touch exercises to enhance communication and boundaries around concepts of pleasure

This workshop includes touch.

All facilitators, assistants, and attendees agree there will be no exposure or touch of the genitals, buttocks, anus, or breast/chest tissue. These body parts will be covered by clothing at all times.

Touch of any other body parts of the facilitators, assistants, and attendees will be for the purpose of education and demonstration with the express goal of integrating classroom concepts and meeting workshop objectives via negotiated boundaries and agreements.

Participants will not be able to avoid witnessing the facilitator and their assistant engage in touch. All touch between the facilitator and their assistant will have been pre-negotiated prior to the beginning of the workshop. This includes workshops where consent and communication are part of the workshop learning objectives.

All negotiations between attendees must occur within the workshop, regardless of any agreements, understandings, or “relationship norms” attendees may have with other attendees outside of the workshop.

Participants will have the ability to determine their own degree of skin exposure and touch within the boundaries stated above when skin exposure and touch are relevant to the workshop learning objectives. This includes opting out of skin exposure and/or touch at any time and learning via observation instead of hands-on practice. Specifically, a decline for touch is always an option that is supported and honored.

The workshop facilitator and/or assistant will not touch workshop attendees. Touch of attendees will be limited to touch by other attendees.

The facilitator will be present in the room during all touch activities.

There is a wide range of risks and benefits to participating in the workshop as presented by the instructor. There is no way for Modern Path or its team members to be able to foresee all of the potential risks and benefits. We encourage you to determine your own level of comfort based on the environment, instructor, other participants, and your general state of being on the day of the workshop.

By registering for this workshop, conducted by Modern Path, LLC and its employees, independent contractors, volunteers and associates who are affiliated, I hereby agree to the following:

1) I agree to obey this policy and further agree to follow any oral instructions or directions given by Modern Path, LLC and its employees, independent contractors, volunteers and associates who are affiliated.

2) I recognize that there are certain risks associated with the event and I assume full responsibility for personal injury to myself and further release and discharge Modern Path, LLC and its employees, independent contractors, volunteers and associates who are affiliated for any loss, injury (including medical and related expenses), damage or death that arises out of my use or presence at the space where the company is conducting business; whether it’s caused by myself, Modern Path, LLC and its employees, independent contractors, volunteers and associates who are affiliated or a third party. In the event that I have a loss, injury, damage (including, but not limited to physical, emotional, spiritual and property) or death that occurs because of the company’s negligence, I agree to indemnify the company and all its employees, volunteers, and affiliates from all actions, suits or claims and I agree and assume the duty to mitigate all costs (including, but not limited to medical and attorney fees) resulting from said loss, injury, damage or death.

3) I understand that, during this event, I might touch someone or have someone touch me that might trigger emotional and/or physical responses and will not hold Modern Path, LLC and its employees, independent contractors, volunteers and associates who are affiliated liable for any damage (including, but not limited to physical, emotional, spiritual and property) that I cause on another person or any damage that someone causes upon me. If I feel uncomfortable at any point, I have the option of withdrawing from that particular activity and/or the workshop and understand that I will not be reimbursed for any portion that I miss or do not participate in.

I HAVE CAREFULLY READ THIS STATEMENT, UNDERSTAND ITS MEANING AND AM VOLUNTARILY SIGNING THIS LIABILITY AND INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT. I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT BETWEEN ME AND MODERN PATH, LLC AND BY SIGNING IT, I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I WILL TAKE ON ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK ASSOCIATED WITH MY PARTICIPATION IN THE WORKSHOP.

Please email education@modernpath.net and we will do our best to answer them.